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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/5759/">Quotes by <em>Poe, Edgar Allan</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor and critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantics. He is best known for his tales of the macabre and his poems, as well as being one of the early practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction, as well as crime fiction in the United States. Poe died at the age of 40, the cause of his death a final mystery. His exact burial location is also a source of controversy. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last."

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"To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair."

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"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

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"Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so."

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"Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard."

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"The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid."

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"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."

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